By Juan E. De Castro
The areas of Latin American Literature: culture, Globalization, and Cultural construction examines how Latin American writers, artists, and intellectuals have negotiated their courting with Western tradition from the colony to the current. De Castro appears to be like at writers and highbrow polemics that function markers of the region's cultural evolution. one of the writers and artists studied are Sor Juana Inés de los angeles Cruz, Rubén Darío, Jorge Luis Borges, Caetano Veloso, and Alberto Fuguet. This e-book proposes an research of the region's literature rooted in its particular cultural, political, and monetary destinations.
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In part this may have been due to the fact that while there was a racist “coloniality of power,” the concept of race as a biological concept was not fully developed. Race during colonial times was a complex combination of race, culture, religion, and legal status. Two key institutions fulfilled a central role in permitting non-Spaniards to advance in colonial society: the Church and the university. 31 One must remember, however, that only the Church accepted both men and women, although in hierarchically differentiated positions.
25 Paz points out that the great Spanish baroque writers of the first half of the century had been informed of the literary developments in the rest of Europe. For instance, “Quevedo and Gracián mentioned . . [Michel de Montaigne] . . 26 Sor Juana, on the other hand, makes no reference to any major French or English Renaissance or contemporary writer. However, some of the philosophical and scientific advances of early modernity reached her through Church-sanctioned mediators, in particular Athanasius Kircher (176).
In a similar vein, Espinoza’s plays were performed only while he was a student at San Antonio de Abad seminary and remained unpublished until 1932 (Chang Rodríguez 90). In fact, by the twentieth century, only his Apologético was known. Even a critic as acute as José Carlos Mariátegui could argue that he belonged exclusively to the field of Spanish literature: Lunarejo, despite his indigenous blood, only achieved renown as a Gongorist, that is in an attitude characteristic of an old literature, that exhausted the Renaissance, arrived at the baroque and culturanism.